EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[NaJoBeLe]

I added the fan what do u mean yours is really modified

Started with the base model 9200
added the fan kit, painted the bottom inside with latex paint for better sealing of the pores(easier to clean and disinfect)((has to be repainted about every 3 hatches)), wired in a STC 1000 temp controller, added the automatic egg turner which isn't really a mod. That's all I recall off hand.

I will eventually build a larger cabinet style out of a display fridge I picked up off craigslist and this will turn into a hatching unit.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Add that people usually want just females.

 

[BantyChooks]

Is your home designed using feng shui design? I keep notes like that too, on each hatch and follow them as they grow and add that to their pedigree charts Serenity now. I liked it when I went from evening or midnight shift to day shift (6AM start). By the time I became fully awake, it was lunch time. The punch creates a larger circumference hole rather than that in an earlobe pierce. Their punched when the chicks are day old before they are out and about walking in crap. Plus they heal quickly. Not likely exposed to freezing conditions very long. Sorting facilities and trucks full of warm boxes wouldn't be freezing. They sure make a mess of a hatcher when the down gets all over everything. Here's some Canadians that shed like crazy. She's losing that black toe. The rest don't look bad. Are you considering cutting the toe off? She'll do fine without it. How wide are your roosts? How did she get frostbitten toes?

I am not sure where she was roosting. Likely in a nest box. She got frostbite on a night that was under -10F, I think. Not a problem for my other birds, but she's a 4mo Bantam, and she didn't have friends to keep her warm. My mistake.

 

[NaJoBeLe]

I added the fan what do u mean yours is really modified

Started with the base model 9200
added the fan kit, painted the bottom inside with latex paint for better sealing of the pores(easier to clean and disinfect)((has to be repainted about every 3 hatches)), wired in a STC 1000 temp controller, added the automatic egg turner which isn't really a mod. That's all I recall off hand.

I will eventually build a larger cabinet style out of a display fridge I picked up off craigslist and this will turn into a hatching unit.

I also use aquarium gravel in the water troughs as heat sinks. Run aquarium tubing through the outer holes into the troughs for filling. I prefer more of a hands off approach and only open maybe twice throughout the incubation to candle and pull eggs out of the turner for lockdown. I suspect in the near future I will be getting the scale as mentioned by @ChickenCanoe I'm not a fan of handling extensively but weighing seems like a good option.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I don't mean this to start a political debate but the Mexican border wall discussion amuses me.
These are just my observations.
From the beginning, I wondered what they were going to do about the Rio Grande. It forms the border between Texas and 4 Mexican states. What side of the river will the wall be on? Certainly not down the middle of the river. A wall on the Mexico side would cut them off from essential water sources. It would also be trespassing. A wall on our side would cut us off from that water source. An extensive farming region near the mouth in Texas rely on it for irrigation and all the recreation now in use.
The rest of the border contains some extremely rugged terrain. Today I watched a video of an aerial view of the Big Bend region. I can't imagine a wall running up and down some of those cliffs. Areas of the Arizona/California Mexico border are pretty rugged too.
The downside would be the environmental damage from wildlife no longer being able to traverse the border. The same thing happened when the Panama Canal was built.
Isolating wildlife populations can contribute to extinctions and cause a depletion of the gene pool on one side or both.
For tens of thousands of years, the isthmus of Panama was a conduit for wildlife species to traverse to and from both continents. That ended by 1910.
As for as who pays. I don't think our fiduciary astute congress would go for it. Certainly Mexico won't. Not to the tune of 30 billion dollars.
Reimburse at a later date? Don't hold your breath.
When the Ming dynasty wanted to complete the work on the Great Wall over rugged terrain that started with the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang, building sections around 200bc - they wanted it and they paid for it.
When the Communists wanted a wall separating East and West Berlin and the contiguous Iron Curtain, the East Germans paid for it and it was on their side of the border.
We apparently are going to use 2000+ year old technology at great cost to separate areas when there are modern, less expensive technological alternatives.
Why aren't we proposing a wall on the US - Canadian border? As the longest international border in the world between 2 countries, that would be a great way to spend our money. 5,500 miles would be a pretty penny. Oh, and don't forget the 1500 mile border with Alaska and Canada.

Just sayin'.

 

[BullChick]

My best feature.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I don't mean this to start a political debate but the Mexican border wall discussion amuses me.
These are just my observations.
From the beginning, I wondered what they were going to do about the Rio Grande. It forms the border between Texas and 4 Mexican states. What side of the river will the wall be on? Certainly not down the middle of the river. A wall on the Mexico side would cut them off from essential water sources. It would also be trespassing. A wall on our side would cut us off from that water source. An extensive farming region near the mouth in Texas rely on it for irrigation and all the recreation now in use.
The rest of the border contains some extremely rugged terrain. Today I watched a video of an aerial view of the Big Bend region. I can't imagine a wall running up and down some of those cliffs. Areas of the Arizona/California Mexico border are pretty rugged too.
The downside would be the environmental damage from wildlife no longer being able to traverse the border. The same thing happened when the Panama Canal was built.
Isolating wildlife populations can contribute to extinctions and cause a depletion of the gene pool on one side or both.
For tens of thousands of years, the isthmus of Panama was a conduit for wildlife species to traverse to and from both continents. That ended by 1910.
As for as who pays. I don't think our fiduciary astute congress would go for it. Certainly Mexico won't.
When the Ming dynasty wanted to complete the work on the Great Wall over rugged terrain that started with the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang building sections around 200bc - they wanted it and they paid for it.
When the Communists wanted a wall separating East and West Berlin and the contiguous Iron Curtain, the East Germans paid for it and it was on their side of the border.
We apparently are going to use 2000+ year old technology at great cost to separate areas when there are modern, less expensive technological alternatives.
Why aren't we proposing a wall on the US - Canadian border? As the longest international border in the world between 2 countries, that would be a great way to spend our money. 5,500 miles would be a pretty penny. Oh, and don't forget the 1500 mile border with Alaska and Canada.

Just sayin'.

It is not a big problem, we in our border in Lebanon, have a border wall on our territory and between it to the official border we have the army patrolling. The US can bild the wall on its part and proclaim that it doesn't abandon its rights on the land and water that can be delivered to the US farmers. It is just a wall that is needed to block illegal immigrants and not to stop an army.

 

[Chaos18]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Started with the base model 9200
added the fan kit, painted the bottom inside with latex paint for better sealing of the pores(easier to clean and disinfect)((has to be repainted about every 3 hatches)), wired in a STC 1000 temp controller, added the automatic egg turner which isn't really a mod. That's all I recall off hand.

I will eventually build a larger cabinet style out of a display fridge I picked up off craigslist and this will turn into a hatching unit.

I considered painting the bottom to seal for easier cleaning. Are you glad you did it?
I have a large (too tall) cabinet I built from scratch starting with a shelving unit my son was throwing away.
I keep upgrading it. It has STC 1000s for the both the incubator and hatcher.
My next one will be smaller and lighter but still able to incubate 150 eggs and 50 in the hatcher using an Arduino uno for control.

I am not sure where she was roosting. Likely in a nest box.
She got frostbite on a night that was under -10F, I think. Not a problem for my other birds, but she's a 4mo Bantam, and she didn't have friends to keep her warm. My mistake.

In a nest box she would have been able to cover her toes. She likely slept on something narrow where she wasn't able to cover her toes. I've had a few mild cases when they were out on snow all day in cold weather but they'd recover overnight by covering their toes on wide roosts.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

In honor of Mary Tyler Moore's passing.
Here is a bit of levity. I was rolling with laughter.

Chuckles funeral.

A link to the whole episode.